Episode Topics

• Real Ayurveda For Mental Health
• 50% off Sale on our Ayurveda | Dosha Fundamentals Online Course until June 26
• Analyzing Ulysses S Grant, one of the greatest presidents of all times and the greatest general of all times
• Ulysses S Grant is a book picture of an Ayurvedic tri-doshic mind
• Steadiness of nerves - Kapha in balance
• Depression, apathy - Kapha out of balance
• Presence of mind - Pitta in balance
• Authoritarian behavior - Pitta out of balance
• Creativity, thinking outside the box - Vata in balance
• Distracted mind - Vata out of balance
• According to Ayurveda we can always become better mentally
• Daily practice tip: Counting to 10 seconds before responding to a "crisis" may help improve your mind
• Daily practice tip: Breathing in and out through the nose with pause after each inhale and each exhale may help improve your mind
• According to Ayurveda our breath and our mind are one and the same
• To help your mental state, at the end of every day, take inventory of your day
• Did you practice both tips mentioned above?
• Did you practice them enough?
• Are you noticing day to day progress in your behavior?
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Transcription

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The Spartan mind strength podcast the podcast

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for mental grit and resilience.

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hosted by Vie Binga and Tim Ganley

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Hello, this is Tim. And this is Vie, and we welcome you

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to another episode of the Spartan Mind strength podcast.

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And this podcast is going to be about

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what pinky same

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thing We talk every time brain Ayurveda

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for the mind.

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Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

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And we're back.

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But before we start talking about ayurveda.

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and we've sold a lot. Yes, and we

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got a lot of great talks about it. So

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ayurvedic lifestyle, that is the best start today

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that is real ayurveda

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according to charaka. Okay commercial over.

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Who we talking about today? And why are we

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talking about that person? We are talking about one of

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the greatest presidents of all time and the greatest

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general of all time. I think I

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know.

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But I am not going to say you love saying his name

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Ulysses S Grant. Yes now he

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was he was became a

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general.

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He assisted in winning the Civil

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War. Yes, and then afterwards he became

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a two-time president of the United States.

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Yes. So I do know that I also know

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a lot about the history of him as a

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Civil War General. Yes, but why would

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a warrior a general

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a fighter have an ayurvedic

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mind?

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Ulysses S Grant

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Had a tri-doshic

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mind. He's a book

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picture. He's not the only one there are several

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people in history

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Who are book pictures of a tri

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doshic mind

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So Ulysses S Grant had kapha

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Had pitta and had vata. Okay,

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but this is in the mind. It's

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not - in the mind. We're not talking

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about his body. Nope, and we're not talking about his emotions.

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Nope. We're talking about his mental

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Capacity. Yes, so

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It doesn't matter if he was completely vata body.

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That has nothing to do with the mind. So,

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can you just explain a little bit about the

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whole concept of

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Body versus mind versus emotions because

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I know a lot of people say well I'm thin so

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I'm vata or I'm fat So I'm kapha. What

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what's the difference between body and

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mind the difference Is that

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the body we are born

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with it and that's it. That's the physical aspect and

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then we use what we are

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born with to the best of our ability

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but our mind and our

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emotions

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But more importantly our mind we have

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full control over on

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making it the best

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we can what we are born with mentally

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Can completely shift throughout our life and

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should and should shift throughout our

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life for most people should shift throughout the

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life as long as they do the work. Okay, that's

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the thing, you know with a body

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say, okay. Well someone

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will say well I'm born with a nose that I don't like I

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can do plastic surgery. Yes. Someone else does it for

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you, right?

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I don't know, I've had mine, well actually yeah because somebody

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else punched it several times. so it did change it exactly

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so so yeah physically we are born with say

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a certain height right certain height certain

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skeleton.

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We can't really change the height

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and the skeleton say right that's

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it. So we take advantage of it for

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sports for whatever we can change the muscle mass and

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we can change the fat man exactly and we can change

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our digestive system. Yes. Right? So, but

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the rest of it really doesn't

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shift that much doesn't shift so we can use

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that to become either a better athlete a better

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Anything that you're looking toward being exactly

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better dancer, better actor,

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whatever. So but the

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mind but the mind yeah,

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we have hundred percent control over.

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And we can make it completely different

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that what we are born with.

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now but

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Go ahead. Go ahead. We have to do the work. Yes now

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and I'm gonna go back to Grant. He

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actually had a

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lot of bad things happen to him. Oh, yes, so

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he was depressed at sometimes in his life. He was excited at

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sometimes in his life. He was happy. He had all different types

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of things. He was broke. He his businesses

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crashed and burned he sucked at a

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lot of different things.

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But his ayurvedic mind is what shifted

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him to be one of the greatest and most known people

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ever born. Yes.

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so

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why it's or not

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why but he was in

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terrible shape earlier in age in

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fact he would drag he would cut wood just to

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sell to try to feed his family. Yes he was very very

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poor. Yeah, but yet he shifted

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into becoming the greatest

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General in the world.

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He always did what he had

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to do.

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Like when he was selling firewood, right?

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He was solving the problem of poverty

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according to him. That's what he had to

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do. He he had to make money somehow so he

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had three characteristics

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That are very very interesting

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and very actually basic when

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you think about them, at least ayurvedically

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The first characteristic is he had steadiness

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of nerves.

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He was after certain point in his

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life He was allowing

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very few things

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to throw him off.

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In fact, there was a story about him having his

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picture taken and for some reason they had

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to go on the roof and open up a whatever Skylight

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and it broke and all

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the glass fell down all around him, but he didn't jump

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at all. It didn't bother him at all. Yes.

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And that's the steadiness of nerves. That's the kapha in

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the mind stability.

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stability of nerves

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Calm composed so kapha is

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Not a Bad Thing. kapha is a great great

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thing in the mind. So kapha in

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the mind. Yes, when it's in in balance

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It is it is an asset. It's

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steadiness of nerves. What is kapha out of

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balance in the mind. It is apathy.

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It is not caring about anything not

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caring to do anything. It's a

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form of depression and we know he didn't have that.

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He didn't have that during the Civil War because of letters

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he wrote exactly so he wasn't he was

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excited about saving the

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United States exactly exactly. So

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that's kapha pitta.

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In Balance pitta balanced is

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presence of Mind focus In

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other words. You are there you are

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present, which is another thing he had laser Focus. He

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had that he had that that

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was huge. He had that task

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at hand ability. He

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could look at a battle and see exactly

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where people needed to

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go and what they needed to be told in

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order to continue what the the

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war needed exactly and that

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allowed him to actually not show

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the fear because he

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had fear he had fear you have to have fear, right? Yeah.

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people that don't have fear are psychopaths. Yes,

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so

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What is the negative aspect is becoming

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an authoritarian dictator type person

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We've seen many people like that

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in history and present day. Exactly. Yeah,

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exactly. We are very well aware of what that

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looks like. So, okay, so that's that.

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What about

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vata Yes, vata in balance. Yes.

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the third characteristic that he had was thinking

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outside the box creativity, but

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creativity of completely

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going against

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What is the norm like he knew

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he knew how to how battle goes, right?

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He's actually considered the new age

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General. Yes prior to the civil war

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wars were fought a specific way.

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He shifted how a battle

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would go exactly. He knew the

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traditional ways, right? And he knew they didn't

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work exactly. He found

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out the hard way. They didn't work.

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He didn't give up. That's the thing.

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He found out the...